Yesterday, we had focused on Asia after a poll of the most welcoming countries for the LGBT community. The Philippines had led the way, some of you have pointed out elsewhere the beauty of Filipinos women that cannot be denied. Today, end of suspense, here is the result for the rest of the world!

Where does the LGBT community like to live?

Europe continues to lead, with a very good result also of Canada. European residents estimated at 75% it was good to live in Europe for the LGBT community.

As you can see in the picture below, it was the Netherlands who topped. Note the very good performance of Ireland which should vote on marriage equality next year.

African countries such as Uganda and Mali are found among the latter unsurprisingly as laws criminalize and condemn the LGBT community to prison.

To conclude, Gallup has decided not to conduct the poll in the following countries, saying the issue was "too sensitive": Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Nigeria, Bahrain, Bhutan, Iraq, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon announced that all same-sex marriages within the staff of the organization would be recognized. So far, the UN recognized civil unions or marriages of people living in countries where marriage equality is legal. The new policy will apparently affect 43,000 people.

A few weeks ago, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations adopted a resolution to protect the families, but the part including LGBT people had been blocked.

Indeed, several countries (Uruguay, Chile, Ireland and France) wanted an amendment stating that there are "various forms of families" be added to the resolution but Russia blocked it.

It's quite possible that Russia tries to add a "traditional values" amendment to this resolution at the next council meeting in September.

A religious student-based society, The Legion of Mary, was stopped within the National University of Ireland, Galway, one of the largest universities of Ireland, after having distributed homophobe leaflets calling gay, lesbian people for choosing god and not homosexuality.

According to The Irish Central, The Legion of Mary is a lay Catholic organization whose members give service to the church on a voluntary basis in almost every country.

Many students were hurted by these leaflets, both LGBT students and also others which do not share this opinion.

That lead to the breaking up of The Legion of Mary a few days after their distribution was stopped.

The university issued the following statement:

"NUI Galway is committed to protecting the liberty and equality of all students and does not condone such behavior."

"NUI Galway has a pluralist ethos and will not condone the production and dissemination of any material by students which discriminates against other students. Discrimination or implied or direct harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation and/or religion, is contrary to Irish and European law."

Even if marriage equality is not legalized in Ireland yet, the government will allow a recognition of same-sex couples who got married in the other countries of the United Kingdom where equal marriage was approved, and the recognition could then be extended to marriages performed in other countries.

As indicates the Independent.ie, a Department of Justice spokesman confirmed that – prior to the referendum – same-sex marriages in England and Wales would be recognised as civil partnerships in Ireland.

If the referendum allowing same-sex marriage in Ireland is passed, however, unions that took place in 45 foreign countries will be granted retrospective recognition as marriages in this jurisdiction.

"A same-sex marriage contracted in England or Wales would be recognised as a marriage in Ireland, from the date on which same-sex marriage were to become available here, should the referendum to be held during the first half of 2015 pass,'' the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Mind you, in England and in Wales, the first marriages will be able to take place starting from March 29.